I've been taking break from playing WoW for a few months. However, I've recently decided that I would like to start playing again. Everytime I try to start Wow.exe, I get the following in the terminal:

Now, I have installed Fedora 16 since I last played. WoW is not a reinstall. It's the same install I was using before. I've never had an issue trying to run WoW with wine. Any helpful feedback would be appreciated. Let me know if you need more info.

"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's _my_ choice, dammit." -- Linus Torvalds, 2004.

Have you installed the directx 9, vc5, vc6 runtimes as well as gecko and wine beeing 32 bit? (regardless if your fedora is 32 or 64 bit)

Thanks for your response, sea. Actually, I referred to your guide as I was trying to solve my issue. I deleted my .wine directory (all but my WoW folder) and consulted your guide as I reconfigured wine, which involved installing all of those mentioned. The problem still persists.

I've reinstalled my OS a few times over the last few years without deleting my WoW install. I've never had an issue. I'd rather not have to resort to trying to reinstall WoW from scratch.

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"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's _my_ choice, dammit." -- Linus Torvalds, 2004.

Hmm, ok.
Well lets start with the bad news, i dont play WoW anymore.
Thus i havent updated the guide.

The terrible news are, i once accomplished to get 25 fps, following my own guide, but never ever again since.
That was the time i had noted down every setting, just to figure out, none of those settings brought the same result after a fresh reinstalltion of Fedora 15, wine and WoW.

The good news are, IF you install wow from scratch, and you pass the launcher installer by 10% or more without issues, you have very good chances that wow will run smoothly.

Have you tried the script i had provided in that thread?
Since i havent touched them again, they still should work well on F15.
Havent tried with F16, and wont do anywhere in close future.

Having an Intel 'GPU' myself, my experience is that it differs very much of a mixture between openGL and directX.
Lazy saying: Optimze for openGL while having directX installed.
But the results differ as they seem to be diffrent with every diffrent chipset.

Ending info:
Havent changed my hardware since i wrote that guide, but the FPS (and the settings that the fps even matters) seemed to be diffrent with every update, as the FPS varied from between 0.1-0.3 over 5-8 to 15-35.
So, since like 100 updates had passed, i have no idea what settings could even matter anymore.

But to give you hope, play with all available settings (winecfg, winetricks), note them down and check your fps.
You will find out that one setting doesnt make a diffrence at all, while the same change varies alot if something.

Thanks for trying. Last time I played, I was getting between 30 and 60 fps, depending on where I was in-game. Hopefully, I can get the game running again without too much effort. As it is now, it won't start. Probably, for the best anyway. I tend to spend alot of time in-game when I play.

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"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's _my_ choice, dammit." -- Linus Torvalds, 2004.